The influence of continuous exposure to 50 Hz electric field on nerve regeneration in a rat peroneal nerve crush injury model

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-403

  Aydin, Mustafa Asim ^a,c   Comlekci, Selcuk ^b   Ozguner, Meltem ^a   Cesur, Gokhan ^a   Nasir, Serdar ^a   Aydin, Zeynep Dilek ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electric induction; Induced field; Toe spread recovery; Walking track; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MUSCLE; RATS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTION; FIELD EXPOSURE; FIELD GROUPS; INDUCED FIELD; INJURY MODELS; NERVE REGENERATION; STATIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; TOE SPREAD RECOVERY; WALKING TRACKS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

RECOVERY;

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC FIELD EXPOSURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATIC GROUP COMPARISON; SURFACE CHARGE; TOE; TOE SPREAD RECOVERY; WALKING; WALKING TRACK;

ANIMALIA; WALLERIA;

EID: 33745755925     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20221     Document Type: Article

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